News Quiz - Week 15 (10 seconds)

NEWS QUIZ
Week 15
Schoolyear 2023-2024
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In deze les zitten 13 slides, met interactieve quizzen en tekstslides.

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Every week on Thursday*, a free news quiz for students in primary education and secondary education. Weekly, thousands of teachers and students take this news quiz, for example, to conclude the week. However, this news quiz can also be perfectly used at home or in a pub quiz.

The news quiz can be played in three variations: 10, 20, or 30 seconds per question.

This weeky News Quiz can always be found here.

* Except for holidays

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NEWS QUIZ
Week 15
Schoolyear 2023-2024

Slide 1 - Tekstslide


Which company laid off 600 employees after the development of its own car was halted?
A
Amazon
B
Microsoft
C
Apple
D
Samsung

Slide 2 - Quizvraag


Which president's warning means Israel will now allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza?
A
Joe Biden
B
Mark Rutte
C
Vladimir Putin
D
Rishi Sunak

Slide 3 - Quizvraag


Britain's Russ Cook ran 360 marathons in less than a year. What distance, of 15,000 km, did he become the first human to cover on foot?
A
The area of South America
B
The width of Australia
C
The circumference of China
D
The length of Africa

Slide 4 - Quizvraag


According to studies in Bangladesh, what can help people from low-income countries increase their income?
A
A neat haircut
B
Daily meditation
C
A healthy breakfast
D
A good pair of prescription glasses

Slide 5 - Quizvraag


Which country experienced aftershocks and landslides this week?
A
Taiwan
B
China
C
Turkey
D
Vietnam

Slide 6 - Quizvraag


What does a hospital in Prague 
'deeply regret'?
A
Instruments swapped with kitchen utensils during surgery
B
Abortion on wrong woman
C
Unintentional amputation of wrong limb
D
Unintentional publication of medical records on Facebook

Slide 7 - Quizvraag


What does the Chinese government deploy to keep tabs on foreign reporters?
A
Secret agents
B
Drones
C
Additional police deployment
D
Tracking dogs

Slide 8 - Quizvraag


Why were millions of Americans watching the sky last Monday?
A
There was a total eclipse
B
Space station ISS would be visible
C
There was a meteor shower
D
The northern lights could be seen

Slide 9 - Quizvraag


Which revolution, according to scientists, started 100 years earlier
than previously thought?
A
The Agricultural Revolution
B
The Industrial Revolution
C
The French Revolution
D
The Velvet Revolution

Slide 10 - Quizvraag


 A study sheds light on the white dwarf star. What is it said to do?
A
It’s capable of reversing the aging process
B
It acts as a cosmic beacon for lost spacecraft
C
It’s a likely destroyer of our solar system
D
It plays a crucial role in regulating the temperature of its surrounding planetary systems

Slide 11 - Quizvraag


So...how did the 
News Quiz go this week?
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Slide 12 - Poll

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Slide 13 - Tekstslide